Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

11.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.